The which, we said, we would have, tho we stayed ten dayes longer for it.

For here we could live as cheap, and earn as much as if we were at home, by our knitting.

So we seemed to them as if we were not in any hast.
[An accident that now created them great fear.] In the mean time happened an Accident which put us to a great fright.

For the King having newly clapped up several Persons of Quality, whereof my old Neighbour Ova Matteral, that sent for me to Court, was one, sent down Souldiers to this High Sheriff or Governor, at whose house we now were, to give him order to set a secure Guard at the Watches, that no suspitious persons might pass.

This he did to prevent the Relations of these imprisoned persons from making an Escape, who thro fear of the King might attempt it.